Lesson For Trump? Italy Sends Illegal Migrants To Camps In Albania

ANALYSIS – Outsourcing as a solution to the illegal migration challenge. Europe has been inundated with illegal migrants coming from the east by land and from the south by sea for a few years now.

Europeans have thus been experiencing the rampant crime, diseases, homelessness, rioting and multitude of other social ills that we are now suffering in this country.

And like our current invasion enabled by the Biden-Harris team, Europe's was enabled and abetted by their governments as well.

Some of those governments, mostly on the right now, have finally woken up to the dangers, and started to crack down on illegal immigration.

And now Italy, which has the largest migrant arrival numbers in the European Union, has taken a dramatic new step toward curtailing their massive foreigner invasion.

It has begun partially outsourcing the problem to neighboring Albania.

Maybe former President Donald Trump will learn something from the Italian approach and implement this solution in some form in his second term.

Giorgia Meloni, the Italian Prime Minister, ran for office promising to clamp down hard on migration – and the Albania plan has become a key tenet of that.

Italy has opened the first of two controversial migrant camps there in the hopes it will reduce the number of illegal sea crossings to its shores.

The two controversial migrant detainment camps are being opened up in the port town of Shengjin and the former air force base of Gjader – both on Albania's northwest coast.

The five-year agreement signed by the Italian and Albanian Prime Ministers is intended to help reduce the migrant burden on Italy and deter some from even attempting the journey. Last year, 153,000 migrants made landfall in Italy.

Both camps will operate rather like embassies, in that the facilities and operations are being paid for by Italy – estimated at upwards of $710 million – and will operate under Italian and EU laws and regulations, as if they were on Italian soil.

The attraction for Albania in allowing such a scheme is a boost to its image overseas as it negotiates for membership of the European Union.

But how will these centers be operated?

As the BBC reports: “The centres will be used to house up to 3000 migrants per month rescued en route to Italy as part of Europe's first “offshoring” scheme, while the continent grapples with how to respond to the challenge of irregular migration.”

It adds that, according to the Italians:

They will be used for migrants picked up in international waters – though not women, children, or those deemed vulnerable.

Once there, they will be allowed to request asylum in Italy. If refused, they will be sent back to countries deemed safe to return.

Despite criticism from the left that it won't work, Fabrizio Bucci, the Italian ambassador in Tirana, told the BBC: “It's one of the elements that migrants and smugglers will have to factor in,” he said.

The ambassador added: “What do we have to lose? We've been trying to redistribute migrants throughout the EU and it hasn't worked. So why not try to chart a new way?”

He refers to the audacious, if expensive plan, as an experiment that, if successful, could be replicated elsewhere. And other European countries are getting onboard.

Meanwhile, 15 EU members, led by Denmark, recently wrote an open letter to the European Commission backing this ‘outsourcing of migration.'

Team Trump should follow this closely, as there may be ways to replicate the approach here.

And with almost half of European countries following this approach, it will be much tougher for the American left to attack it.

The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News.

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